House Bill 4062, 80th Legislative Session, 2007, effective June
15, 2007, transferred the administration of the Special Nutrition
Programs (Programs), currently administered by the Health and Human
Services (HHSC) to the Texas Department of Agriculture (the Department).
The effective date of the transfer of the programs will be October
1, 2007, as approved by the United States Department of Agriculture,
Food and Nutrition Service. Under the bill, rules of the HHSC pertaining
to the Special Nutrition Programs transfer to the Department on the
effective date of the Program transfer and continue in effect as the
rules of the Department until superseded by an act of the Department.

The HHSC Special Nutrition Program rules currently found in Texas Administrative Code,
Title 1, Part
15, Chapters 377 and 378 will be transferred and reorganized under Texas Administrative Code, Title 4, Part
1, Chapters 24 and 25

The transfer will take effect on October 1, 2007.

Please refer to Figure: 1 TAC Part 15, to see the complete conversion
chart.

In addition, in order to accommodate the transfer of the rules
for the Special Nutrition Programs, the Department also reorganized
some chapters in
Texas Administrative Code,
Title
4, Part 1, by consolidating rules relating to the Texas Agricultural
Finance Authority found in Chapters 24 - 27 into Chapter 28. The transfer
of those rules will also take effect on October 1, 2007.

Please refer to Figure: 4 TAC Part 1, to see the complete conversion
chart.